754 General Notes. [ November, 
On consulting such works as are accessible to him, the writer 
finds no mention of any similar relics having been discovered in 
mounds in Florida or elsewhere. For further particulars refer- 
ence may be had to a paper on the subject read before the St. 
Louis meeting of the American Association, August, 1878.— 
Henry Gillman, Waldo, Florida. 
ANTHROPOLOGICAL News.—The eleventh annual report of the 
Peabody Museum of American Archeology and Ethnology is the 
most important contribution to anthropology that has appeared 
during the year, either in this country or in Europe. The Trus- 
tees having completed the new building for the museum, the in- 
augural exercises are fully reported in the volume. The titles of 
the scientific papers are: Second Report of the Implements found 
in the Glacial Drift of New Jersey, by C. C. Abbott; The Method 
of Manufacture of Several Articles by the former Indians of 
Southern California, by Paul Schumacher; Cave Dwellings in 
Utah, by Edward Palmer; The Manufacture of Soapstone Pots 
by the Indians of New England, by F. W. Putnam; Notes on a 
Collection from an Ancient Cemetery in Southern Peru, by John 
H. Blake; Archeological Explorations in Tennessee, by F. W 
Putnam; Observations on the Crania from the Stone Graves in 
the evidences of the pre-glacial, or intraglacial existence of man 
in New Jersey. Whatever may be the true interpretation of the 
facts set forth by Mr. Abbott, we are confident that the day has 
gone by when evidence of this kind will not receive a patient and 
unprejudiced hearing. Two separate questions spring out of these 
researches, viz.: whether the implements are of human manufac- 
ture,and whether the beds in which they lie are related to the so- 
called Glacial Age. The explorations of Mr. Putnam, in Tennes- 
see, were crowned with signal success, and the construction of the 
mounds and graves, together with the contents human and de- 
pository, have enabled him to classify the people who constructed 
them and lie buried in them, The supplementary article by Mr. 
Carr upon the crania adds greatly to the value of Mr. Putnam s 
paper. The contribution of Mr. Bandelier is supplementary to his 
_ paper on the Art and Mode of Warfare of the Ancient Mexicans 
= in Report X. The author belongs to the Morgan school of critics, 
~ holding that the descriptions of the chroniclers of the sixteenth 
=~ Century interpreted savage society in the light and language ° 
ce of his appreciation of the motives of the old authorities. His 
sol. de Documente 
command of authorities is immense; but his use of them is often | 
painful. to the reader, as for instance his reference to Sr. Icazbal- 
tos,” and other rare and precious works, | 
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their own countries. The author exceeds Mr. Morgan in the Jus- 
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